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96% of Nurses Lack Tools Needed for Patient Engagement, Education

Seventy-one percent of nurses said they don’t have enough time to sufficiently meet patient engagement and patient education needs.

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By Sara Heath

- Nurses need more access to the time and tools needed to support patient engagement and education among an increasingly stigmatized chronic care patient population, according to surveying from Wakefield Research conducted on behalf of Convatec.

Particularly, nearly all nurses (96 percent) told the survey administrators that they do not have the time, education, or resources to address the worst aspects of the patient experience for those with long-term health needs, who themselves are reporting challenges with patient education and disease stigma.

This comes as the US faces an influx of patients managing chronic illness and long-term diseases. The Baby Boomer generation is aging into retirement, and with that comes an onslaught of medical needs both they and their caregivers, either a spouse or an adult child, need to manage.